Witch craft works's anime started recently, but I didn't like it. The manga is entertaining, even though nothing close to the hits this season...but the anime failed to interest me. Except for the deranged ending animation.

After one of the cuts the anime adaptation did to Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio:Ars Nova 's manga, I haven't had the heart to watch the last couple episodes. The whole thing is pretty good though.

I think we're the only ones that lived in a market that aired Saint Seiya shortly after its release in Japan back in the day. By the time it actually arrived to the US, it seemed outdated and the heavy censorship didn't help.

Out of curiosity, what did trigger the rise of anime on your side of the pond? If I'm not mistaken it started really late (late 90's?) when compared to markets like France (starting in the early 80's, with the real kick-start in the late 80's).

Then again, it doesn't seem like anime got the same flak it got when it started in France. God, some articles I read when I was a teenager. Then again, some dumbass DID manage to get City Hunter and FREAKING Fist of the North Star on a *kid's show*...

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To be honest? i'm not sure... I had access to mexican tv growing up, so my exposure to anime was much earlier than most people in the US. I remember watching Saint Seiya, Tetsujin 28, Mazinger Z, Dragon Ball Z, Magic Knight Rayearth and even the anime version of the Transformers before any of them were ever shown in the US. I'm talking mid/late 80s/early 90s.

Latin-America, back in the day, would show anime a lot in the afternoons. Heck, I don't remember ever seeing Saber Marionette J ever on any american channel, but would air at 3:30 on Animax.

Hmm, for us up here in the north of the world it took aaaaages for anime to get in. I only remember watching anime on foreign channels...and since I didn't understand english at that time, it was really wierd but awesome...

I remember Robotech (Macross) and Voltron (Beast King Golion) being pretty big, and watching them as part of my Saturday Morning Cartoon Regimen (SMCR), as well as my After School Cartoon Consumption (ASCC).

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Sagara wrote:Out of curiosity, what did trigger the rise of anime on your side of the pond? If I'm not mistaken it started really late (late 90's?) when compared to markets like France (starting in the early 80's, with the real kick-start in the late 80's).

Then again, it doesn't seem like anime got the same flak it got when it started in France. God, some articles I read when I was a teenager. Then again, some dumbass DID manage to get City Hunter and FREAKING Fist of the North Star on a *kid's show*...

Here it hasn't really risen. Saint Seya, Dragon Ball (not Z, dammit) and Yu Yu Hakusho were a blast at their time, but the channels lost interest. These days only the reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally big hits like naruto get any screen time, and there is little interest from any company to license these things here. So we steal. It's a glorious display of bizarreness when just about everyone from 12 to 40 seems to know tons of anime and none of them officially exist here, and no one considers licensing them.

The manga market, in comparison, is actually bustling. Still small in comparison to us and jp, but you'll find just about any manga here officially if you look close enough.